Box-fastener.



Nm 57,21% PATBNTBD JUNE 1a, 1907.

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B0X FASTENBR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 4,1906..

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. UNITED STATES PATENT voEEIoE.` WILLIAM TISCIIFFA cRoSSE, WISCONSIN.

BoX-FASTENER.

No. 857,217.y

Patented June 18, 1907.

Application filed April 4, 1906. Serial No- 309,887.

To all whom t may cm1/cern.- y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TrscH,.a citizen of the United States,residing vat La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse and Statel ofWisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Box-Fasteners,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to box fasteners.

One object is to provide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable andefficient fastening for application to various types of boxes. Y

Another object resides in the provision of a box fastenerembodying suchcharacteristics that itmay be positively locked against unfastening andeffect a tight closure between the lid and the boxproper.

I/Vith these andother objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and operative aggrou'pment of parts all aswill be more fully described hereinafter, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and nally pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box illustratingone form of my invention applied thereto, the dotted lines indicatingthe position of the' head of the keeper when the lid is positivelylocked upon the box. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through thefastener illustrated in Fig. 1, including a portion of the box. Fig. 3is a detailed view of the keeper plate. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofa modification showing the fastener applied to a box with a raisedcover. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the latch member detached. Fig. 6is a perspective view of the keeper and its attaching plate.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings thereferencecharacter 1 indicatesa boxprovided with ahinged lid 2,

the hinge connection being of any character and indicated at 3.

In order to hold the lid 2 in tight engagement with the upper edges ofthe sides and ends of the box 1, I provide a T-shaped keeper plate 4which is secured to the box 1 at any suitable point by means offastenings 5. The tail 6 of the keeper plate 4- is bent or upset to forma loop 7 intermediate the ends of the said tail portion 6 to receive theeye 8 in one end of the latch 9, there being a short longitudinal slot10 formed in the latch member 9 to permit of the passage therethrough ofthe head 11 of a T-shaped keeper 12, which latter isswiveled in the headof the keeper plate 4. The free end of the latch member 9 is bent,turned or otherwise formed to provide a lip 1.3 designed to engage thelupper face of the lid 2 to bind the latter in close engagement with thebox proper.

To fasten the lid upon the box the head 11 I of the keeper is turned sothat it may aline form a seat a for the base t of the keeper 12,l

and also to project into the recess c of the latch member. Thisarrangement permits and insuresl a tight binding action between theinner face of the keeper head 11 and the bulged portion of the latchmemberformed as the result of producing the seat a referred toimmediately above. It will thus be understood that even when the head ofthe keeper is in alinement with the slot 10 of the latch 9 the lip 13 ofthe latter will serve to hold the lid in its closed position undernormal conditions and that a positive fastening is effected by simplyturning the keeper 12 in the manner stated.

The fastening hereinbefore described is easily adjusted and effects apositive locking connection between the lid and the box and in the eventof the application of my improved fastening to a box provided with araised lid; that is to say, a lid 14 whose upper face is above the planeof the lip 16, as in Fig. 4, I prefer to dispose a slotted plate 15along the corresponding face of the lid to receive the lip 16 of thelatch 17. With the exception of the slotted plate 15, which is anaddition to the aforesaid structure, the modified form of the inventionis the same as that first herein described.

As shown in Fig. 6 the keeper may be formed by a blank of suitablematerial provided with reduced ends and bent upon itself to form thehead 11 andshank 12 with a disk 18 fitted upon the shank and the reducedend of the blank forming the shank bent, as at 19, to retain the diskupon the shank.

Having thus described my invention what IOO IIO

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combinationwith a boX provided with a hinged lid, of a keeper plate provided withupper and lower outwardly directed portions, a latch member pivoted atone end to the lower 'outwardly directed portion of said plate andhaving its opposite end directed at an angle to its body portion forengagement with the lid of the box to force the latter tightly upon thesides and ends of the latter, said latch member also having an outwardlydirected portion to embrace the upper outwardly directed portion of thekeeper plate and provided with aslot, and a keeper swiveled on thekeeper plate and provided with a head to pass through said slot of thelatch member and bear against the outwardly ldirected portion of thelatter to lock the lid against accidental opening.

2. The combination with a box provided wardly directed portion to lockthe lid` against accidental opening.

' 3. A keeper comprising a body portion having reduced ends and bentupon itself to form a head and a shank, and a disk fitted to said shank.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

v WILLIAM TISCH.

Witnesses CHAs. B. MILLER, RosA JAHN.

